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May 4, 2024 · Stock market crashes have posed a threat to both U.S. financial markets and citizens throughout history. Here is a timeline detailing each event.
- Ward Williams
- Matthew Dilallo
- 13 min
- 1929 stock market crash. The worst stock market crash in history started in 1929 and was one of the catalysts of the Great Depression. The crash abruptly ended a period known as the Roaring Twenties, during which the economy expanded significantly and the stock market boomed.
- Black Monday crash of 1987. On Monday, Oct. 19, 1987, the Dow Jones Industrial Average plunged by nearly 22%. Black Monday, as the day is now known, marks the biggest single-day decline in stock market history.
- Dot-com bubble of 1999-2000. During the late 1990s, the values of internet-based stocks rose sharply. As a result, the technology-dominated NASDAQ Composite Index (NASDAQINDEX: ^IXIC) surged from 1,000 points in 1995 to more than 5,000 in 2000.
- Financial crisis of 2008. In 1999, the Federal National Mortgage Association (FNMA or Fannie Mae) wanted to make home loans more accessible to those with low credit ratings and less money to spend on down payments than lenders typically required.
A stock market crash is a sudden dramatic decline of stock prices across a major cross-section of a stock market, resulting in a significant loss of paper wealth. Crashes are driven by panic selling and underlying economic factors.
Mar 10, 2024 · The most devastating stock market crashes in US history. According to Stocks Bonds, Bills and Inflation (SBBI), 2021 Summary Edition (Page 192) from Roger G. Ibbotson and James Harrington, there...
Jun 13, 2022 · Three weeks ago, Wall Street narrowly escaped a bear market, with stocks rebounding at the last minute from a brutal drop that had brought the S&P 500 down 20 percent from a record high in...
Dec 27, 2023 · Some stock market crashes maul economies for years. Others merely shake up investor confidence, making people more cautious in their choices.
Stock market crash of 1929, a sharp decline in U.S. stock market values in 1929 that contributed to the Great Depression of the 1930s, which lasted approximately 10 years and affected both industrialized and nonindustrialized countries in many parts of the world.
